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by 1stcity3rdcoast 7y ago
Ah, yes, Congress — the most competent subject matter experts regarding the internet and technology.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
This is the Q factor that everyone omits when doing the calculus on their own journeys. The pre- and post-flight nonsense are basically another trip entirely.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Not sure why the parent comment is being downvoted —- the allegations against the current administration for bypassing the financial and credit checks for high-level security clearances are very relevant to the discussion. The whistleblower
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
I mean, if someone wanted to move to the country to become a gentleman or family farmer, there’s simply no better place to do it than rural Italy.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
I didn’t follow the previous discussion, but if I were a conspiracist, I’d think that someone in the US government is already or has the potential to be exposed as a Grindr user, and is therefore using their influence to keep the informatio
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Because you’re not just telegraphing it to your competitor, you’re moving the entire market and affecting the bid/ask and price transparency for all its participants. That affects liquidity, derivatives, a lot of downstream negatives.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
The problem with hooking up to freight trains are numerous. First, the ride is bumpy. Freight trains add/remove cars throughout the journey, which generates large bumps. More troublesome, though, are freight rail yards. They don’t have
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
You need customers signed up and ready to pay well before you have a product ready to launch. Having a co-founder who is good at outreach, sales, and making connections is honestly more important than having a finished product, so you shoul
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Arguments by analogy are an excellent way to compose an argument. Socrates built entire ethical systems using analogy.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
I have the same Jabra headphones with my iPhone X and MBP. Great product. Jabra is a calls-first company, so the talk clarity is incredible, and the Bluetooth pairing is strong enough to walk between rooms. The very best feature, though, is
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
As someone who went to Hillsdale, seeing my school referenced on hacker news is surprising!
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Opportunity cost of safety improvements to vehicles. Airliners cost like $100 million each, so they can afford to perfect safety. You can’t get airliner-level safety in a vehicle that costs less than $50,000.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
We’d need the number of reports for other plane models to know if that’s a lot or a little or the norm. Can you compare?
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Tinco is correct, I bought before the MtGox crash at around $30 but used them as my exchange to do the trade, and never pulled them into a wallet.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Everything I used to buy the BTC was anonymized (cash deposit, throwaway email address). I have all my MtGox login information but can't access the email address I used to verify anything. Any way I can still file a claim?
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
I agree with their assessment that the A2Z Guarantee is a financial risk as the potential for counterfeits increases with scale. Amazon returns are shockingly easy and I am always given the benefit of the doubt. Makes sense that they would
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
There’s been a lot of heated discussion about this on HN previously, but it would be interesting to know 1) how big of a problem it is, and 2) what people are buying that seem to have this problem. My household buys on average 10-20 items f
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
I lost some 2010 BTC (trading at ~$30) in the MtGox failure, and then missed the window to make a claim. Harsh.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
YouTube has YouTube Kids plus different levels of content filtering available to users. Similar concept, in a way.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
As mentioned in a comment I made below, the fact that so many people have to modify and tweak OS X just to make it habitable for a multi-window and multi-instance workflow points to some serious deficiencies relative to Windows. I switch be
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Wow, thank you for the Karabiner-Elements lead! I switch between Mac and PC, so having to use the FN button drives me completely batty. And I will have to try Witch as well.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
They’ve already started piloting an annual subscription that gives you a permanent 20% off every purchase, every time, with a barcode pre-loaded on your phone. It cost me $29 for the whole year. I buy a ton of stuff at BBB for my company an
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Following on with a generic upvote for the Naval Gazing blog, which got its start in the comments section of another blog and has become a source of very interesting pieces and research on its own.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Do you have to de-plane during the fuel stop to do the pre-clearance? Or do they do that right on the tarmac?
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
That adds up to 198%, but that’s effectively correct when you’re scaling up a company!
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
I used to call Uber in the early 2010-2012 days on my Blackberry by texting my current location. Worked great even without an app.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
It’s not capitalism when your risks have the government as a backstop. Failure is a healthy market mechanism; socialized losses only hurt investors’ ability to make capital decisions and consumers’ ability to have agency via their individua
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Beautiful stuff. I am so glad people continue to explore and keep alive technology from the years when I was growing up.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Delivery services, typically.
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by 1stcity3rdcoast 8y ago
Stripe and Square both identify consumers by their unique CC numbers. If I swipe my card on a square reader, it recognizes me and asks if I want a receipt sent to my phone or email, even if I’ve never purchased from that vendor before.

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